Why is apt-cache so slow?
- by Damn Terminal
After upgrade to Trusty (14.04) from Saucy (13.10), all apt operations are very slow. Even those that do not include downloading anything, or connecting to any servers. For example, displaying the apt policy
# time apt-cache policy
[...]
real 0m8.951s
user 0m5.069s
sys 0m3.861s
takes almost ten seconds! Mostly a weird lag right…